Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has provisionally posted around a 10% revenue growth from operations in the first quarter of fiscal year 2026-27, Union Minister of Communications Jyotiraditya Scindia said on Monday adding that average revenue per user (ARPU) of the state-run company has also risen from Rs 100 to Rs 102.7.
Reviewing the company's financial performance, the Minister noted that BSNL's core business engines — Enterprise Business and Consumer Mobility— have recorded positive growth, driving the revenue increase to Rs 4,418 crore in Q1 FY26–27 from Rs 4,017 crore during the corresponding period of last year.
The enterprise business segment of BSNL has grown 19.2% to Rs 1,745 crore in the June quarter from Rs 1,463 crore in the same quarter a year ago. BSNL's consumer mobility vertical, which comprises the mobile services business, has grown 8% year-on-year to Rs 1,724 crore, Scindia said.
However, the final numbers will be out in about a week, he said.
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The minister also commended the outstanding performance of four circles in particular: Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, UP West and Karnataka, which emerged as the top performers across the key operational metrics.
He said the growth for BSNL came following an improvement in the network availability time.
“We have looked at our operational parameters, which include BTS (mobile base station), our OLT (optical fibre gears) up time, and we are charting the path forward on our network capability over the next three months. It is reassuring for BSNL, but we still have a lot of work ahead of us. Our capex is on as planned, and we look forward to even more encouraging results in Q2 of 2026-27,” Scindia said.
The government has allocated Rs 28,473 crore to BSNL for the current fiscal.
"We are looking at requirements from batteries, other infrastructure. We also have an additional order of 22,000 more 4G sites that need to be put in place. Some portion of that purchase order has also been issued, and so we have a healthy capex going forward as well,” Scindia told reporters.
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